bluefoxicy:Valid complaints: Teachers are assholes; religion being taught as science.

Invalid complaints: "Blatantly violating the separation of church and state."

There's no such thing as separation of church and state. It is a myth. The Constitution of the United States makes it patently illegal for Federal Congress to impose law establishing a state religion or restricting the free practice thereof; the Incorporation Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is incorrectly interpreted to force states to follow the rules imposed on the Federal government, which is a broken interpretation but still does not go so far as to impose Atheism as the state religion.

There can be no law restricting a school district from holding prayer as part of normal school services and hanging pictures of Jesus around. It would be illegal to prohibit these things.

7/10 written well enough to be plausible. You have trod the Middle Way of the Troll, but have chosen not to attain trollightenment so as to show the path to other travelers. I salute you, Trollisattva.

bluefoxicy:I have been through this battle. When I was in 5th grade I decided that the Pledge of Allegiance was incompatible with my personal ideals: that swearing to stand beside a country regardless of its behavior, to fight for them for any and all reasons, was a foolish endeavor and left open too many questions of morality. Thus I refused to participatewas just as starved for attention as I am today, and although as a 12-year old I lacked the "sophisticated" worldview that I have come to adopt in my adult years, this conjured-up memory is what I wish could have been true. Anyway, I am a contrarian. There. That feels better.

somedude210:There are Buddhists in Louisiana? How the fark does that work? I'm a Buddhist in MA and I know of 1 temple in my area, and it's not even my teaching of Buddhism (I'm a Mahayada Buddhist, most Thai/Cambodian/Vietnamese/Indian Buddhists are Theraveda branch Buddhism). I can't imagine how tough it is to find a temple to mediate at down south.

Valiente:And America should really stop talking about "Constitution" and "democracy" and "fark, yeah" if you're not going to wall off your vicious retards from contaminating the social experiment with their inbred shiat.

my very Southern US style Christian neighbor was complaining about some Buddhist monks who were visiting one of the Neighbors. I pointed out that the teachings of Jesus and the teachings of Budda were so similar that a Christian could easily follow the way of Budda while still being a Christian. She was so appalled and terrirfied that I did not understand the parts about intollerance and always eating meat, never doing good deeds or thinking good thoughts that she and her family no longer speak to me at all.

Invalid complaints: "Blatantly violating the separation of church and state."

There's no such thing as separation of church and state. It is a myth. The Constitution of the United States makes it patently illegal for Federal Congress to impose law establishing a state religion or restricting the free practice thereof; the Incorporation Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is incorrectly interpreted to force states to follow the rules imposed on the Federal government, which is a broken interpretation but still does not go so far as to impose Atheism as the state religion.

There can be no law restricting a school district from holding prayer as part of normal school services and hanging pictures of Jesus around. It would be illegal to prohibit these things.

7/10 written well enough to be plausible. You have trod the Middle Way of the Troll, but have chosen not to attain trollightenment so as to show the path to other travelers. I salute you, Trollisattva.

lindalouwho:somedude210: There are Buddhists in Louisiana? How the fark does that work? I'm a Buddhist in MA and I know of 1 temple in my area, and it's not even my teaching of Buddhism (I'm a Mahayada Buddhist, most Thai/Cambodian/Vietnamese/Indian Buddhists are Theraveda branch Buddhism). I can't imagine how tough it is to find a temple to mediate at down south.

/which reminds me, I should meditate more

Don't need a temple to meditate, don't need a church to pray, don't need a synagouge to worship.....

If you need to get busy meditating, in a pinch, the bathroom of a Burger King will suffice.

somedude210:There are Buddhists in Louisiana? How the fark does that work? I'm a Buddhist in MA and I know of 1 temple in my area, and it's not even my teaching of Buddhism (I'm a Mahayada Buddhist, most Thai/Cambodian/Vietnamese/Indian Buddhists are Theraveda branch Buddhism). I can't imagine how tough it is to find a temple to mediate at down south.

/which reminds me, I should meditate more

Wouldn't all Buddhists just want to be more Buddha-like?Kind of like Christians being more . . . Oh.never mind.